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Al-A'raf 130

Ayah 130 of 206 · Meccan

وَلَقَدۡ أَخَذۡنَآ ءَالَ فِرۡعَوۡنَ بِٱلسِّنِينَ وَنَقۡصٖ مِّنَ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَذَّكَّرُونَ ١٣٠

And We certainly seized1 the people of Pharaoh with years of famine and a deficiency in fruits that perhaps they would be reminded.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 Imposed on them by way of trial and warning.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَلَقَدۡAnd certainlywalaqad
  2. أَخَذۡنَآWe seizedakhadhnā
  3. ءَالَ(the) peopleāla
  4. فِرۡعَوۡنَ(of) Firaunfir'ʿawna
  5. بِٱلسِّنِينَwith years (of famine)bil-sinīna
  6. وَنَقۡصٖand a deficitwanaqṣin
  7. مِّنَofmina
  8. ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ[the] fruitsl-thamarāti
  9. لَعَلَّهُمۡso that they maylaʿallahum
  10. يَذَّكَّرُونَreceive admonitionyadhakkarūna

Tafsir

And indeed I gave the people of Pharaoh a number of years of drought and famine, testing them with a shortage of fruits and crops, so that they might reflect and realise that this was a punishment from Allah because of their disbelief, and so they might repent to Him.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran